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If not by nature, then by habit, people tend to match one thing with another-man and woman, laughter and tears, sickness and health, fire and water, master and servant-thereby accentuating similarities and contrasts and opening a field of relations. In...

Reputed to be a conservative group, the Nobel Prize committee astonished the world in 1985 by giving its prize to Claude Simon, one of the most adventurous and challenging of modern authors whose writing defies easy classification. This study shows...

According to Carol Rigolot, reading the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) is not unlike eavesdropping on a telephone conversation in which only one side is audible. His poems are antiphonal, and even polyphonic, works where...

Charles O'Keefe provides a close reading of Andre Gide's three major first-person narratives--L'Immoraliste, La Porte Etroite, and La Symphonie pastorale--through the lens of semiotics and narratology. O'Keefe argues that Gide is in many ways a...

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today, including Maissa Bey, Helene...

Jean-Jacques Poucel offers a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature). Poucel argues that...

In an examination of eyewitness travel writing in thirteenth- through sixteenth-century France, Andrea Frisch studies the figure of the witness at a historical juncture and in a cultural context in which that figure is generally thought to have begun to...

This book examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery--all chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for the quality...

While the plays of classical France achieve an unprecedented scenic perfection, what ultimately distinguishes classical drama is its unique awareness of its literary properties: the canny excavation of its resources as the site, instrument, and product...

This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as...

This study is devoted to the manifestations of the occult in modernist Hispanic short fiction, particularly that of Manuel Gutierrez Najera, Ruben Dario, and Leopoldo Lugones. According to Howard Fraser, modernist fiction exhibited a coherent,...

Politiques de l'ecriture is a critical assessment of an important yet overlooked segment in the socio-cultural history of the interwar period. It examines in detail the function, range, and implications of ""sacred sociology"" as...

Questioning a particular tradition of reading, Carol Sherman writes a series of metacritical essays that revise many of our assumptions about Voltaire's stories, substantiate others, and attempt to account for the phenomenon of interpretation for the...

The Broken Angel is the first book-length examination of a mythopoetic configuration that pervades Valery's entire textual universe. The Angel is linked to almost every one of its themes and informs all of its modes, which, in turn, form and deform it...

Volume 214 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807892145Author Gordon ShentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North...

Volume 176 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891766Author Nathaniel B. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

A close reading, with text and translation, of each of the thirteen prose poems which Mallarme published during his life and grouped together in 1897 as the ""Anecdotes ou Poemes"" of Divagations. The analysis-the first full...

Volume 196 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891964Author Edward Baron TurkFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of...

Douglas Alden provides scholars of Proust a practical means of access to the Grasset Proofs, which include Du cote de chez Swann, A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs and Le Cote de Guermantes. Alden guides the reader in approaching Proust's only work...

Volume 190 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891902Author Judith Morganroth SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The...

Volume 178 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891780Author Richard Howard StamelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University...

Volume 177 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891773Author Patricia Willett CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University...

Jacob's reputation has traditionally been that of a verbal acrobat. This book is an analysis of the major stylistic devices of his poems and prose poems: puns, parody, and imagery. The author shows how the poet uses devices to communicate with his reader...

The author, after analyzing textual and iconographic descriptions of the medieval Jewish Passover Seder, concludes that Chretien de Troyes's Grail banquet (found in his romance Perceval portrayed a Sephardic Seder. The author proves by documentary...

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni was one of the most popular novelists of her day. Stewart examines Lettres de Fanni Butlerd (1957) and the seven subsequent novels, paying particular attention to the technical aspects of her work to her handling of the letter form...

Seventeenth-century French author Paul Scarron's Roman comique has often been dismissed by critics as episodic and disorganized. This, in part, stems from four interpolated stories which Scarron included and which, according to many critics, have no...

This study is an analysis of Rousseau's relationship to his reader in the major works drom Discours sur les sciences et les arts to Reveries du promeneur solitaire. In addition to specialists, the volume will be of interest to a broad audience directly...

Rebecca M. Valette examines the short stories of French author Arthur de Gobineau. Through detailed analysis, Valette underscores Gobineau's originality and his contribution to French literature. This study describes the various narrative techniques that...

This general chronology of Voltaire's letters by an eminent ""Voltairiste"" contains a chronological appendix, followed by a bibliography and an index.Book InformationISBN 9780807890172Author Andre DelattreFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Volume 156 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.Book InformationISBN 9780807891568Author Joseph R. DanosFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North...

An attempt to trace the development of Moliere criticism organized around three categories: biographical, academic (both historical and formalistic), and commentaries by ""theater professionals."Book InformationISBN 9780807891513Author...

An analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develop naturally from the Renaissance outlook on the world.Book InformationISBN 9780807891407Author John F...

Scholarly opinion on the philosophical and aesthetic significance of Ronsard's Christianity is sharply divided. This monograph makes a thorough review of the most important and representative writings on the question. The foreword by W. L. Wiley...

This study examines the thematic unity of Les Tragiques as the resolution of disorder, interprets its form as a fusion of generic tragedy and the epic, draws a parallel between the poem and the Book of Revelation, and treats aspects of structure and...

Winner of the 1949 Language Association Oxford Award, Literature through Art, first published in 1952, sketches the history of French literature in terms of its relations to the fine arts, using pictures to interpret literature and literary texts to...

These two anonymous French poems indicated that the medieval legend of the Fifteen Signs Before the Judgment still had a place in the intellectual background of the sixteenth century. They reveal the legend's decaying status as well as suggests its new...

This volume contains over five hundred critical entries divided into thirteen sections that are concerned with the following aspects of Hugo scholarship: bibliographies; catalogues; editions; anthologies; biography; general criticism, political career...

Published in 1966, this study is an interpretation of the Chanson de Willame and at the same time an enlargement of traditional concepts defining all medieval epic literature calculated to advance our appreciation of its literary quality.Book...

This is the first translation into modern English of the story of Floire and Blanchefleur, a popular romantic story that appeared in numerous languages of both northern and southern Europe well into the Renaissance.Book InformationISBN...